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CELEBRATING 100 YEARS Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants by Donald E. Bender, Student of Economic History c ALIFORNIA has the honor of being the first state in 1891 to license land surveyors for the protection of the public. The Office of County Surveyor has existed in California since 1850, the early 1600s in North America, and much earlier in England. The licensing of both private and public land surveyors in the United States, however, appears to begin in California in the fall of 1890. The idea of licensing land surveyors follows a pattern developed by European surveyors much earlier. In his 1977 publication, Chaining the Land, Mr. Francois D. "Bud" Uzes, Land Surveyor 3175, provides a glimpse of the effort initiated by California land surveyors in 1890 to become regulated. Mr. Adolph Theodore Herrmann of San Jose is given the title by Bud Uzes of "father of the act to license and define the duties of land surveyors, and to provide for a proper record of surveys." Mr. Adolph Theodore Herrmann apparently proposed regulation on December 5, 1890. He was subsequently awarded land surveyor license twelve on July 22,1891. Was Mr. Herrmann the "father" of land surveyor licensing? Should the committee members of the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast be given top honors? Should the members of the first Board of Examining Surveyors be given top honors? Should the land surveyors honored with the first licenses be given consideration for top honor? Should individuals never licensed as land surveyors be considered for the top honor? LAND SURVEYOR GIANTS The biennial report of Surveyor General Theodore Reichert to "his Excellency H. H. Markham, Governor of California" on August 1,1892, [see page 22. — Ed.] provides answers to a few of these questions. At page ten of his report, Surveyor General Reichert provided a copy of the 1891 act that licensed land surveyors. At page thirteen Surveyor General Reichert reported "Under the abovequoted act, licenses have been issued to the following persons": 1. Charles Terraine Heal[e]y Los Angeles, July 20,1891 2. James Malcolm Gleaves Redding, July 20,1891 3. Hubert Vischer San Francisco, July 20,1891 4. Otto Von Geldern San Francisco, July 20,1891 5. Charles Henry Holcomb San Francisco, July 20,1891 6. Thomas Lennington Knox Orland, July 20,1891 7. Benjamin L. McCay Oroville, July 20,1891 8. William F. Peck Yuba City, July 20,1891 9. Pallas N. Ashley Woodland, July 20,1891 10. Ernest McCullough, San Francisco, July 20,1891 11. S. Harrison Smith San Francisco, July 20,1891 Eleven land surveyors were licensed on July 20, 1891. The Report continues to identify a total of one hundred and nine individuals who were issued licenses through July 13,1892. Several observations come to mind when I read and reread that August 1, 1892, report from Surveyor General Reichert to Governor Markham. First, San Francisco land surveyors appear to have done very well in the first round of licensing. One possible reason: Surveyor General Reichert was a long term resident of San Francisco. Another possibility: the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast was in San Francisco. The three Technical Society members appointed to the first Board of Examining Surveyors lived north of the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude. Second, land surveyors north of the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude did extremely well in the first round of licensing. This might again be the result of the geographic reality that the Technical Society was in San Francisco. Participation by land surveyors in Technical Society meetings in San Francisco in 1891 was no easy task. Third, the Technical Society Committee members who drafted the original licensing proposal in December of 1890 and January of 1891 could have been considered very deserving of the early license numbers. But, the early licenses were not awarded to former committee members. The Technical Society Committee members were licensed as follows: Otto Von Geldern of San Francisco (4), Adolph Theodore Herrmann of San Francisco (12), C.E. Grunsky of San Francisco (17), and Luther Wagoner of Sacramento (216). Fourth, the first members of the Board of Examining Surveyors could have awarded themselves the early licenses. But, contrary to the practice in the other states that followed California in the licensing of land surveyors and engineers, the first surveyor board members did not receive the early licenses. The licensing of board members will be considered later. Fifth, who was Mr. Charles Terraine Heal[e]y of Los Angeles? As land surveyor one, he appears to stands out from the others. The next license awarded to a land surveyor south of the thirty-seventh parallel is Mr. Burr Bassell of San Bernardino. Mr. Bassell was awarded license fifteen on August 10, 1891. Why did Mr. Healey receive the honor of land surveyor license one when eleven licenses were issued on July 20,1891? Should he receive the top honor? We will later return to the consideration of Captain Healey. Sixth, who was Surveyor General Theodore Reichert? He became CONTINUED ON PACE 16 14 The California Surveyor Winter/Spring 1992
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